Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXXVIII

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



I saw one sitting on a kingly throne,
A man of age, whom Time had touched with white;
White were his brows, and white his vestment shone,
And white the childhood of his lips with light,
Only his eyes gleamed masterful and bright,
Holding the secrets shut of worlds unknown,
And in his hand the sceptre lay of might,
To bind and loose all souls beneath the sun.
Where is the manhood, where the Godhood here?
The weak things of the world confound the wise.
Here is all weakness, let us cast out fear.
Here is all strength. Ah, screen me from those eyes,
The terrible eyes of Him who sees unseen
The thing that is, and shall be, and has been.


Scheme ABABBABCDEFEGH
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 0111111111 101101111 010111111 1011110001 1001011101 0011010111 1101110101 11011011 0111010101 1111011111 1111111111 01001111101 0111011011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 634
Words 124
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 497
Words per stanza (avg) 122
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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